Conrad) would make a statement to the House in reference to a certain declaration made by that officer.
Mr. Conrad replied that while he was not authorized to make any statement to the House, and especially under a threat, he would say that Mr. Memminger had remarked to him in usual conversation, long before the introduction of the resolution, that it was his intention to resign at the close of the present session of Congress.
Mr. Foote rejoined that it was understood that Mr. Memminger had ejoined that it was understood that Mr. Memminger had very recently made a similar declaration to Senator Orr, of South Carolina, and to the chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
This Congressional episode goes very far towards sustaining a report which has been for some time in circulation respecting the intentions of the Secretary of the Treasury.
The only name that we have heard mentioned in connection with the succession to the office is that of Judge Campbell, of the War Department.
at he would take them into ports for adjudication but for the operation of the British Order in Council, which prevents him from doing so.
The English Government has issued an order with regard to the reception of belligerent cruisers with prizes in colonial ports it is directed that if a prize is duly fitted out and regularly converted into a war vessel, the clause excluding prizes is not to apply to her.
A Novel Suit.
The Confederate States, represented by President Davis, Mr. Memminger, Secretary to the Treasury, and Mr. Seddon, Minister of war, were sued in a French court by French traders, who owned a cargo of cotton which was burned by the rebels after it had passed to the merchants.
The plaintiffs were defeated with costs.
France and Austria.
Notwithstanding the Mexican through arrangement, it is said that the Emperor of Austria is busily engaged in arming the Quadrilateral and plotting against Napoleon both in Rome and Venice.
Liverpool market.
in the money they are to receive, a reaper's day's work cannot be fairly paid for with less than thirty dollars, what opinions will they form of it?
It is principally because it undoes all the labor of the last Congress, and degrades the currency, which that Congress took so much pains to improve, that we object to this schedule.
It is framed precisely as though no such laws as those of the last session had ever been passed — precisely as though we were still under the pressure of Mr. Memminger's paper mill, and liable to a deluge of treasury notes to the tune of hundreds of millions every hour of the day. It plays into the hands of speculators, and those interested in depreciating the currency, and it renders utterly nugatory all the laws of the last session, and this too at a time when money is extremely scarce from the enormous amount withdrawn from circulation.
We learn from a contemporary that the Governor of Virginia is using every exertion to call the attention of t
Presentation to ex-secretary Memminger.
--On Thursday evening last, at Columbia, South Carolina, the Virginia ladies of the Treasury Bureau presented Mr. Memminger with a handsome walking cane, Mr. Memminger with a handsome walking cane, enriched by inscriptions bearing testimony that it was a tribute of gratitude from Virginia ladies.
The following correspondence attended the presentation:
We, Virginia's daughters, beg Mr. MeMr. Memminger's acceptance of the accompanying humble testimonial of our gratitude to him for the benefit he has conferred on us by inaugurating a department for the employment of ladies, who, through the s rule, and offer him this tribute simply as a memento of our grateful regard.
To this Mr. Memminger replied:
Mr. Memminger has received with much satisfaction "the memento" with which thMr. Memminger has received with much satisfaction "the memento" with which the "daughters of Virginia" have honored him on his return home.
Admiring as he does the spirit and fortitude evinced everywhere by the women of our country, he has witnessed, with increased satisfact
means of the Treasury, has written a letter to Governor Bonham, of South Carolina, on the subject of the Confederate Finances, which has been published by the South Carolina papers.
In this letter he says "there is nothing in its (the Treasury's) present condition to inspire alarm, but, on the contrary, every motive for confidence." He endeavors to disseminate the idea that the Confederate Treasury is the "Treasury of the People," and that it must sustain them and they must sustain it. Mr. Memminger's policy was more constricted.--Formerly the Treasury was a sort of Car of Juggernant that rode over people, and was entirely independent of them.
Mr. Trenholm desires to ameliorate the relations between the department and the public and to restore it to their confidence.
He attributes the loss of confidence in the Confederate securities, in part, to the measures of Congress.
He especially objects to the system of compulsory funding and the tax of thirty-three and one-third per cent.
he blockading squadron, and, being struck by their shot, was beached to save her from sinking.
The Journal gives much credit to the captain, Gordon, for saving fifty thousand dollars of Government specie and a large amount of bonds, both on Government and private account, all of which he saved by his individual exertions, sacrificing his own interest to do so.
What may be the necessity of transmitting specie from this country to foreign ports by our Government, we do not know.
But Mr. Memminger was much censured for shipping gold by the blockade-runners when sterling exchange was freely offered him. Three ships, having each twenty-five thousand dollars in gold, were captured by the enemy, and the sums with which they were freighted passed into his hands.
The loss was considered heavy; and as it could have been easily avoided, the Secretary of the Treasury was thought to have acted most unwisely.
The fifty thousand dollars on board the Lynx seems to have had a very narrow esca
t.--They state that the whole establishment, plates, paper and furniture, were brought North thirty-six hours before the occupation of the place by the Yankees.--The female employees in the Treasury Department, as we stated on Saturday, got off to Charlotte, North Carolina, several days before the advent of Sherman.
Some of them, whose homes are here, have arrived in this city.
Most of them, we understand, saved their baggage, but lost their furniture.
It will be recollected that when Mr. Memminger, then Secretary of the Treasury, carried these ladies to South Carolina for safety, and to lessen the demand for food in Richmond, he permitted each of them to carry a bed, some chairs and other furniture.
These household articles now swell the list of Sherman's trophies.
We expressed the opinion on Saturday that Sherman's next step from Columbia would be in the direction of Florence, South Carolina, the junction of the Wilmington and Manchester railroad with the railroad running n
te insupportable.
This is the condition of this city at the present time.
The high water prevails, and people are sorely troubled to escape it. Rents are beyond all precedent; even under the Confederacy they did not reach the present climax until 1864, we believe.
Landlords could not keep pace with the depreciating Confederate money, and it was only in the latter part of the struggle that they elevated themselves to the extreme indicated by the rapidly falling financial thermometer of Mr. Memminger. But having gotten at last to this elevation, they seem to be entirely unable to come down; they are like the sailor at the top of the mast — they cannot safely look down, but keep their eyes towards the horizon across the waste of waters.
Rents are from three to five times the reasonable rates which could be sustained by the business of this city.
Immediately after the surrender of the city, speculators and adventurers flocked thither under the impression that there was a field fo
